Maybe we should rename the Alamo too.
Technically it was Mission San Antonio de Valero, the term “Alamo” (cottonwood) came into common usage after a rapid-response frontier defense outfit from deeper in Mexico was stationed there in that old mission for 32 years before the siege.
The members of the
Segunda Compania de San Carlos de Parras were mostly from the Mexican town of
San Jose y Santiago de Alamo de Parras so the outfit was simply referred to as
Alamo de Parras for short.
Long association with the derelict mission cause it to to be referred to in common usage as “El Alamo”.
http://www.sonsofdewittcolony.org/adp/history/hispanic_period/pframe.htmlSo, it's already been renamed once, but by Mexicans.
Hadn’t thought of that.
The year before they posted Alamo de Parras there a major Comanche raid stole 300 horses, virtually every horse owned by the five missions and during that period ran off with about 200 women and kids.
Ya don’t hear much of that after the arrival of that Flying Company, light cavalry, so they may have been pretty good.
By the time of the Alamo, hundreds of two-wheeled Mexican ox-carts out of San Antonio were crossing the plains, and would remain a major form of freight conveyance up until the coming of the railroad in the 1870’s. Each ox cart with an attendant family, hauling up to around 500lbs an average of seven miles a day.
Maybe 300 Tejano households in San Antonio all wanted a buffalo in the fall. The long horned African cattle brung in by the Spanish carried at least two diseases lethal to buffalo such that by the 1830’s you had to go 100 miles north and west of town to find buffalo. They did this every year, with those same seven mile/day carretas. Heck they even brung in blocks of New England ice packed in sawdust from the coast, took them two weeks one way from Corpus Christi Bay.
So clearly things had changed w/respect to the Indios by the time of the Alamo.
